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Born in Lisbon, Portugal, Andreia Pinto Correia is currently pursuing a composition doctoral degree at the New England Conservatory, in Boston, studying with Michael Gandolfi. She received her Master of Music degree with Academic Honors in Jazz Composition as a student of Bob Brookmeyer, and a double degree in Film Scoring and Jazz Composition, also with Academic Honors, from the Berklee College of Music.
Recent awards include a 2009 Tanglewood Music Center Fellowship, the 2009 NEC Contemporary Ensemble Composition Award, the 2008 Toru Takemitsu Award by the Japan Society, a 2008 Composers Conference Fellowship, a 2008 Orquestra do Algarve Young Composer Fellowship, the 2008 NEC Contemporary Ensemble Composition Award, a 2008 NEC Merit Award, a 2008 Luso-American Foundation Scholarship, and a 2008 ASCAPLUS Award. She is a recipient of several institutions including the New England Conservatory, ASCAP, Luso-American Foundation for the Development, BMI Jazz Composers Workshop (NY), Beneficent Society, Berklee College of Music and the Berklee College of Music Alumni Grant, and the Sacatar Foundation (Bahia, Brazil), among others.
Miss Pinto-Correia holds commissions from the European Community Presidency, Avian Music Contemporary Ensemble (NY), Antena 2/RTP (Portugal's National Broadcast), two commissions by tuba virtuosos Sérgio Carolino (Soloist Oporto National Orchestra) and Anne Jelle Visser (Soloist Opera of Zurich), percussionist Jeffrey Davis, the AR Ensemble, the Orquestra de Jazz de Matosinhos, and the Festival do Teatro S. Luíz, to name a few. She is currently working on an extended work for children's choir, string quintet and piano, a commission by the Câmara Municipal da Trofa as a tribute to acclaimed writer Matilde Rosa Araujo.
Miss Pinto-Correia started her musical studies in her native country at the Academia de Amadores de Música and at the Escola de Jazz Luís Villas-Boas (Hot Clube de Portugal), in Lisbon. Originally a saxophone player, she dedicated herself to composition in 2002, after being unable to perform due to an accident. She started her compositional career by conducting exclusively her own works with her Jazz Orchestra both in the USA and Portugal, having guests as André Fernandes, Perico Sambeat, Marc Miralta, Sara Serpa and Carmen Staaf. She also colaborated with Cape Verdean artists Vasco Martins, legendary batucadeira Nacia Gomi and Mário Lúcio as the Musical director of the Commemorations of the 30 years of that country.
Miss Pinto-Correia's works have been performed in major halls across Europe, Africa and the USA such as the Muziekgebouw (Amsterdam), Zurich University for the Arts, Lucern Festival, Jordan Hall (Boston), Berklee Performance Center (Boston), Centro Cultural do Mindelo (Cape Verd), Casa da Música (Oporto), Centro Cultural de Belém (Lisboa), Centro Cultural Vilar Flór (Guimarães), Teatro das Figuras (Faro), and Teatro Gil Vicente (Coimbra).
She has been exclusively devoted to write 'concert' music since the year of 2007. Her music combines both the influences of her native country and the techniques of contemporary music.